Memorial Day is this weekend and I feel like summer has come out of nowhere… and I am totally unprepared. At the top of my list are some at-home beauty treatments, new sandals and summer clothes. There are some great …
• Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Category: Alum Blog, Arts, community, Culture, current events, Dance, film, Hispanic New York, Hispanic or Latino, Latin american cinema, Latin American literature, Latino culture in New York, Latino literature, Music, news, Theater
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• Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
We refuse to use the term “virtual assistant.” Our assistants are real people, we aren’t a marketplace and our services cost more than $300/ month. Read more about why a managed service makes all the difference.…
Category: Alum Blog, assistant, building relationships, Personal Assistant, Personal Assistants, Prialto, Productivity Assistant, virtual assistant
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• Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Category: Alum Blog, D'Marquesina, Fania Records, Hispanic New York, Latino culture in New York, Latino music, Louie Vega, Music, Que Bajo
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• Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
The Hispanic Federation sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting that the regulator investigate Herbalife, a multi-level marketing firm that sells nutrition products. Read more at Business Insider. From the Archives: The Dangers of Selling …
Category: Alum Blog, Bill Ackman, Federal Trade Commission, Herbalife, Hispanic Federation, Hispanic New York, Latinas, Latino immigrants, Latinos and health, Nutrition, Passaic, Sunset Park, Video, Zapotec
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• Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Guatemala’s highest tribunal on Monday threw out the genocide conviction of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt and ordered the proceedings to be rolled back to April 19. Read more at the New York Times. Read also: What Guilt Does U.S. …
Category: Alum Blog, Cacif, Efraín Ríos Montt, genocide, Guatemala, Hispanic New York, Ixil Mayans genocide, José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, Ronald Reagan, the new york times, Video
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• Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Thoughts for Dispossessed Poets
“There is another world, and it is in this one”
-Paul Éluard
“He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”
-John 1:10
Boo hoo. The modern …
Category: Alum Blog, Articles, community, Insights, John Keats, Poetry, Salt Publishing
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• Monday, May 20th, 2013
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC + Guy Who Likes To Question The Answers
I used to read and recommend eMarketer, simply because they have numbers and pie charts and other examples of statisticulation. That …
Category: Alum Blog, cellphones, critical thinking, eMarketer, hype, marketing, mobile, Random Observations, statistics, Surveys
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• Monday, May 20th, 2013
El 12 de octubre de 1913 salía a las calles de Nueva York La Prensa, que como El Diario La Prensa sigue hoy en la brecha. Leer más en El País.
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• Monday, May 20th, 2013
What Venezuelans may remember most about last month’s presidential
campaign, says Alma Guillermoprieto, is the moment when incumbent president Nicolás Maduro told that Hugo Chávez had come back to him in the shape of a little
bird and, chirping, …
campaign, says Alma Guillermoprieto, is the moment when incumbent president Nicolás Maduro told that Hugo Chávez had come back to him in the shape of a little
bird and, chirping, …
Category: Alma Guillermoprieto, Alum Blog, chavismo, chavismo after Chavez, Henrique Capriles Radonski, Hispanic New York, Hugo Chávez, Nicolás Maduro, The New York Review of Books, Video
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• Sunday, May 19th, 2013
AP. IRS. Benghazi. Rather than jumping into the heated battle of competing narratives about Obama’s three “scandals” or ignoring this high-stakes story, follow it for insights on how to influence by labeling. Notice, for example, how the “scandal” label has stuck …
Category: Alum Blog, behavior, Bob Schieffer, Collective Intelligence, competing narratives, Connecting, Conor Friedersdorf, contagion, Glenn Rush, Jennifer Upstein, Katrina Trinko, Labeling, National Review, Peggy Noonan, Peter Baker, Politics, Quotable, Reason, Slate, The Atlantic, William Saletan
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• Sunday, May 19th, 2013
In Latin America, the failure of neoliberalism has not only produced a resurgence of
populism, but populism’s fascination with charismatic
messianic figures has led to a revival of religion. Read more at Traviesa.
populism, but populism’s fascination with charismatic
messianic figures has led to a revival of religion. Read more at Traviesa.
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Category: Alum Blog, Álvaro Bisama, Carlos Yushimito, Giovanna Rivero, Hispanic New York, Latin American literature, Liliana Colanzi, literary translation, Luciano Lamberti, Neoliberalism, revista Traviesa, Traviesa
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• Sunday, May 19th, 2013
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| Una novela de Daniel San Martín Viernes 24 de mayo – 8 p.m. Graduate Center (CUNY) 365 Fifth Ave., piso 5°, sala 5414 Click aquí para mayor información |
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Category: Alum Blog, book presentations, Daniel San Martin, Hispanic New York, literatura argentina, New York Spanish-language writers
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• Saturday, May 18th, 2013
Good thing our thesis and dissertation defenses aren’t like this, right? Hope you’re having a great Saturday!…
Category: Alum Blog
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• Friday, May 17th, 2013
On May 16, 1913, Cuban Alfredo A. Cabrera, nicknamed El Pájaro (The Bird), played his one and only Major League Baseball game. This is his amazing story. Read more at BuzzFeed.
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Category: Alfredo A. Cabrera, Alum Blog, baseball, BuzzFeed, Cubans, Hispanic New York, Latinos and baseball, Major League Baseball
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• Friday, May 17th, 2013
Gotham Media had another of its great Digital Breakfast seminars on April 17. This one was: “Content and Commerce – Media Online” – certainly topics that keep a lot of people occupied these days.
This was the official description of
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• Friday, May 17th, 2013
“Wait, what? It’s July 30! The summer is more than half over! I didn’t write at all in June and hardly anything in July! Now I have so much work to do – – too much work! How am I …
Category: Alum Blog
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• Friday, May 17th, 2013
LATIN AMERICAN ICONIC & EMERGING WRITERS
MAY 15 – 17, 7 PM
In Celebration of Review 86
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| Valeria Luiselli (Courtesy of Alvaro Enrigue) |
May 15: Conversation between Roberto Ampuero (Chile) and Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (Dominican Republic), …
Category: Alum Blog, Alvaro Enrigue, Americas Society, Carmen Boullosa, Daniel Shapiro, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Gioconda Belli, Hispanic New York, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, Roberto Ampuero, Valeria Luiselli
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• Thursday, May 16th, 2013
This is an interesting time of year for me.
In my email I find notes from students excitedly telling me where they’ll be headed in the fall. I’m also hearing from new students, often apprehensive about the college process, needing …
Category: advice for graduating high school students, Alum Blog, Application Process, first impressions college consulting, sharon epstein
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• Thursday, May 16th, 2013
With summer quickly approaching, I am attempting to plan ahead for summer birthdays and activities to keep the kids busy during the summer. Totsy is having some amazing toy sales right now. Check out my latest picks!
First up, …
Category: Alum Blog, Toys (All Ages)
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• Thursday, May 16th, 2013
There’s a new job opening at the top of the IRS. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are calling not just for resignations, but criminal inquiries. The Op-Ed pages are full of insights about how 501 c 4s are broken, …
Category: #FEC, Alum Blog, IRS, philanthropy
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• Thursday, May 16th, 2013
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Category: Alum Blog, Eva Mendoza Chandas, Hispanic New York, Latino culture in New York, Latino Video Art Festival of New York, New York University, Video
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…• Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
ILuvShmoozee by Jay@Play is currently hosting a fun-filled video contest that allows readers to create a Shmoozee-inspired video to win big prizes including a grand prize of $500 and a first prize of $250, to name a few.
Below is …
Category: Alum Blog, Contests, jay@play, School Aged Children, shmoozees, video contest, videos by kids
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• Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
Despite the huge scale of vendor spending with analysts, many users don’t get the best value from their subscriptions. In our February 27 webinar, three leading experts discussed the key steps for firms wanting to get more value from analysts. …
Category: Alum Blog, Analyst firms, Analyst relations, Featured, ROI
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• Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
If you’re on facebook or twitter, you may have seen the image to the right. When I first saw it, I thought immediately of an artist friend of mine and her work with elementary school children. Natalie would spread out …
Category: Alum Blog
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• Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for Dunkin’ Donuts. I received a Dunkin’ Donuts Party Kit to facilitate my review and a promotional item as a thank you for participating.
Coffee. The word itself brings to the mind an …
• Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
There’s a opportunity facing analysts. It arises from a gap between what analysts offer and what their clients are looking for. Analyst firms traditionally use analytical skills which, by focussing research through structured and sequential methods, tend to blinker and confine …
Category: Alum Blog, Methodologies
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• Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
If you loved Disney’s “Cars” series, then hold on to your hats, because here comes Disney’s “Planes”! To get your little ones excited for the Aug. 9 release, below is a super fun activity and coloring page thanks to our …
• Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
A stretch of Broadway in Washington Heights will be renamed after Juan Rodriguez, allegedly the first Dominican, first free black, and first Hispanic merchant who settled in what is today New York. Read more at the New York …
• Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
I LOVE throw pillows. For a small object, they can really add to the décor in a room. What I don’t love is the hefty price tag from major design stores, so when I saw that Totsy is having a …
Category: Alum Blog, Decor and Furniture
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• Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
I can hardly believe that we are halfway through the month of May, and with summer right around the corner, that means summer camp season is almost upon us! If last year’s summer clothing has been outgrown, then you are …
• Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been like a dog with a bone about the threat to the social economy and charitable organizations inherent in the Citizens United decision. I’ve written about it, held charrettes on it, spoken…
Category: 501c4, Alum Blog, IRS, philanthropy, Social economy
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• Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
All high school students are eligible to enter the Windows 8 Study Smarter Laptop Scholarship contest. There will be 10 winners awarded. You will be competing against college students too, so make sure your entry is top-notch in quality. …
Category: Alum Blog, College, contest, Essay, High School, Scholarship, scholarships
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• Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance) Basics: Cost is generally one .5% – 1% of the loan amount charged on an annual basis and divided into 12 payments per year Not Tax deductible Applied if down payment is less the 20% of …
Category: Alum Blog, Buyers Only, Finance & Mortgage Reminders
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• Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
According to the IRS, the maximum mortgage amount you can claim interest on is $1,000,000 on first or second homes if the loan was taken after Oct 13, 1987. You can also deduct interest on $100,000 for a second mortgage …
Category: Alum Blog, Buyers Only
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• Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
My son loves to do crafts but I find that it can be challenging to come up with new things for him to do (sound familiar moms?). We received a Wummelbox to review and it was such a great experience …
• Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for Hershey Entertainment and Resorts. I received a promotional item as a thank you for participating.
Some of my best summer memories as a kid were made at Hersheypark. We …
• Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Late spring is the perfect time to do some shoe wardrobe updates. With all of the amazing new trends hitting the stores, it’s tough to decide where to start! One of my favorite, droolworthy brands is Stuart Weitzman. Stuart Weitzman …
• Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Do you have occupational health or work safety concerns? Do you work in an unsafe workplace and wonder what to do about it? For this last post in our occupational health series, I’ll wear my employment lawyer* and career
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Category: Alum Blog, Career Tips, Occupational Health, Work/Life Balance
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• Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Now that you have finished law school your life as a lawyer is just about to begin. The last hurdle though is that State bar exam that everyone must sit for in order to add Esq. after their name. …
Category: Alum Blog
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• Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon in a case involving the University of Texas on the use of race and ethnicity in college and university admissions nationwide. Read more at the New York Times,
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Category: affirmative action, Alum Blog, california, diversity in college admissions, Hispanic New York, ProPublica, race and ethnicity, The Economist, The Grio, the new york times, U.S. Supreme Court, University of Texas, Video
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• Monday, May 13th, 2013
It is that time of the year again when GigaNet is soliciting proposals for presentations at its 8th annual symposium. This time it will take place in Bali, Indonesia and the main focus of the event will be on cyber-security …
Category: Alum Blog, CFP, conference, conferences, GigaNet, IGF, internet governance
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• Monday, May 13th, 2013
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| MAY 13, 7P.M. Farewell Reading / Lectura de despedida – 2013 Graduating Class, MFA Creative Writing in Spanish (BLOW UP IMAGE)
With Gloria Esquivel, Ana A. Galindo, Alexis Iparraguirre, Ana Margarita López, Raul Martínez, Nuria Mendoza,
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• Sunday, May 12th, 2013
Spanish novelist Javier Calvo and American translator Mara Faye Lethem (who also happen to be married to each other) discuss similarities and differences between the present wave of English translations of Latin American writers and what happened in the golden …
Category: Alejandro Zambra, Alum Blog, César Aira, Gabriel García Márquez, Granta, Hispanic New York, Javier Calvo, Latin American Boom, literary translation, Mara Faye Lethem, Roberto Bolaño
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• Sunday, May 12th, 2013
Is there a new subgenra emerging among Latin American writers, fictional accounts of the madness of their 1970′s parents–open marriages, marijuana, etc.? Mario Bellatin and Edmundo Paz Soldan believe it might be. Read more at T…
Category: Alum Blog, Drugs, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Hispanic New York, Latin American literature, literature, marijuana, Mario Bellatin, revista Traviesa, the Seventies, Valeria Luiselli
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• Sunday, May 12th, 2013
The problem with gringos, Malik said to him one day, is that they don’t know how to make conversation … Read more at n+1
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Category: Alum Blog, Alvaro Enrigue, fiction, Hispanic New York, literary translation, Mexican literature, n+1, Spanish-language literature in the United States
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• Saturday, May 11th, 2013
I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for JOHNSON’s Baby. I received a promotional item as a thank you for participating.
Sunday May 12 is Mother’s Day, a day when we come together to celebrate the love, care …
Category: Alum Blog, Mother's Day
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• Saturday, May 11th, 2013
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day — a day which I celebrate and enjoy. I consider Mother’s Day a private holiday. I give a card and gift to my mother and, when she was alive, I did the same for my mother-in-law …
Category: Alum Blog, Mother's Day, Motherhood
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• Saturday, May 11th, 2013
High school poets now have their own scholarship contest. It’s called the Just Poetry Scholarship and it’s provided by National Poetry Quarterly.
This contest is run every three months and gives high school poets a chance to win $500 for …
Category: Alum Blog, contest, High School, Poetry, Scholarship, scholarships
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• Saturday, May 11th, 2013
Jason Richwine, a policy analyst for the Heritage Foundation whose Harvard dissertation stated that Hispanics had a lower IQ than American whites, resigned after mounting pressure for his views. Read more at Fox News Latino, Huffington Post Latino…
Category: 'The Bell Curve', Alum Blog, Fox News Latino, Heritage Foundation report on immigration reform, Hispanic New York, Immigration Reform, IQ, Jason Richwine, Video
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• Saturday, May 11th, 2013
Former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt was sentenced to 80 years in prison for the killing of more than 1,700 indigenous Ixil Mayans during his 1982-83 rule. Read more at the New York Times and La Jornada y El Puercoesp
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Category: Alum Blog, CNN, Efraín Ríos Montt, Fredy Peccerelli, genocide, Guatemala, Hispanic New York, Ixil Mayans genocide, Mayan peoples
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• Friday, May 10th, 2013
The James Beard Foundation is notorious for celebrating and preserving America’s culinary heritage. The James Beard Foundation Scholarships are instrumental in helping students pursue their careers in the culinary arts.
The scholarship contest is open to high school seniors or …
Category: Alum Blog, College, contest, culinary arts, high schools, Scholarship, scholarships, seniors
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• Friday, May 10th, 2013
The Learning By Giving Foundation, funded by Warren Buffet’s sister, is offering a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on philanthropy. Participants will learn about giving and then give. More information is here.
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Category: #givingwithpurpose, #learngive, Alum Blog, philanthropy
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• Friday, May 10th, 2013
(Disclosure: My oldest son and I are in Orlando for the Disney Social Media Moms Conference. While I did pay for my conference ticket and travel, the event is subsidized by many sponsors. Opinions are always my own.)…
Category: Alum Blog, Dining, Disney, Disney TRYit, DSMMoms, events, family travel, Featured, Parenting, Pre-schoolers, Recipes, School Aged Children, Social Good, Socially Conscious, Travel
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• Friday, May 10th, 2013
Seven-in-ten Hispanic high school graduates in the class of 2012 enrolled in college last fall, surpassing for the first time in two percentage points the rate (67%) among their white counterparts. Read more at Pew Research …
Category: Alum Blog, college graduation rates, high school dropout rates, Hispanic New York, Latinos and education, Pew Research Center, videos
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• Thursday, May 09th, 2013
Well, not quite. For all I know, we may be related.
But imagine my frustration at being beat in search engine results for my own name by someone who has been dead for almost 400 years. I decided to channel …
Category: Alum Blog, ekphrastic, Poetry, Robert Peake The Elder, tudor
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• Thursday, May 09th, 2013
By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED Jim Sulley/Barnes & Noble, via NewscastWilliam Lynch, Barnes & Noble’s chief executive, shows off the Nook tablet at a bookstore in Manhattan. Shares of Barnes & Noble skyrocketed in early trading on Thursday after …
Category: Alum Blog, Industry News
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• Thursday, May 09th, 2013
Latino turnout rate declined in last year’s presidential election with regard to the 2008 election, and was also lower than that of whites and blacks. Read more at Pew Research Center.
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Category: Alum Blog, Black vote, Hispanic New York, Latino vote, Latino voter turnout, Pew Hispanic Center, U.S. Census Bureau, White vote
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• Thursday, May 09th, 2013
In his 2009 doctoral dissertation, Jason Richwine –one of the authors of the questioned Heritage Foundation reform on immigration reform released earlier this week– argues that Hispanic immigrants will likely have low-IQ children and grandchildren. Read more at the …
Category: 'The Bell Curve', Alum Blog, Heritage Foundation report on immigration reform, Hispanic New York, Immigration Reform, IQ, Jason Richwine, The Washington Post, Video
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• Wednesday, May 08th, 2013
Are you interested in the topic of economic intelligence and have you used economic intelligence services in your current role within your organisation? Are you an Strategist / Economist / Planner/ Chief Finance Officer or Finance Director? Do you work in …
• Wednesday, May 08th, 2013
Category: Alum Blog, Art, Hispanic New York, Latin American artists in New York, Latino artists, Lehman College Art Gallery
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• Wednesday, May 08th, 2013
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| CUTLOG INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR May 8 – 13 47 galleries from all over the world. At. The. Clemente. FOR MORE INFO, CLICK HERE |
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Category: Alum Blog, Art, Clemente Soto Vélez Center, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Education Center, Cutlog International Art Fair, Hispanic New York
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• Wednesday, May 08th, 2013
Category: Alum Blog, Bronx, Bronx Week 2013, Hispanic New York, ilovethebronx.com
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• Tuesday, May 07th, 2013
According to a recent survey by Child’s Play Communications, the number one thing moms want for Mother’s Day is something handmade from their child. Yet nearly 1/4 of moms receive nothing on Mother’s Day…and that’s just a shame.
Homemade gifts …
Category: Alum Blog, Gift Ideas, Gifts, Maternity, Mom Gifts, Mommy Gifts, Mother's Day, SunnyBump
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• Tuesday, May 07th, 2013
Disney Social Media Moms Conference is almost here and we are getting sooooo excited! I am taking my oldest with me who couldn’t get enough of the Dumbo ride last year when we went to the new Fantasyland opening. …
Category: Alum Blog, American Tourister, Contemporary, Disney Social Media Moms, Disneyworld, iTunes Story App, Pre-schoolers, Roller Coaster for Preschoolers, Travel, Vacations at Disney
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• Tuesday, May 07th, 2013
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“Sfumato”
Written by Marina Burana – Directed by Haydn Díaz
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 7:30pm
LaMaMa / 47 Great Jones Street, New York (Between Bowery and Lafayette)
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Category: Alum Blog, Haydn Diaz, Hispanic New York, IATI Theater, Marina Burana, Spanish-language theater, Teatro IATI, teatro leído, Theater
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• Tuesday, May 07th, 2013
Here is a cool little SQL Server tip from the April GP Reports Viewer newsletter. Say you have a list of rows and you want to assign sequential numbers to them, so that you always know which one is first, …
Category: Alum Blog, Dynamics GP, Featured, GP Reports code, GP Reports Viewer, Sales Order Processing, SOP SQL code, SQL code, SQL Server
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• Tuesday, May 07th, 2013
The New York Times has discovered that all is not fair in the land of digital technology. Janet Maslin, a book critic for the paper, doesn’t usually review tech books. So I was a bit surprised to see her review …
Category: #digital #philanthropy, #digitalvicivilsociety, #maslin, #tech, #wortham, Alum Blog
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• Tuesday, May 07th, 2013
From the aftermath of the Mexican War to today, these are the figures of Hispanic demographic growth. Read more at ABCNews – Univision.…
Category: ABC News / Univision, Alum Blog, Hispanic New York, Hispanic population, Mexican War, U.S. Census Bureau
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• Tuesday, May 07th, 2013
Are you a member of a college-bound family?
Come to my final college prep program of the spring (and it’s free!):
“Less Stress, More Success”
May 9
7pm
Ridgefield Parks and Recreation
Ridgefield, Connecticut
I’ll be joined by Jennifer Soodek…
• Monday, May 06th, 2013
January 21, 2010
My friend Bill Sobel, founder of Sobel Media, formerly known as NY: Media & Information Group, held his most recent event on Thursday, January 21, at the Samsung Experience in the Time Warner Center. The topic was …
Category: Alum Blog
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• Monday, May 06th, 2013
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| On Tuesday, May 7th the NY DREAM Coalition will visit Albany to lobby for the NY DREAM Act (A02597/S02378). If enacted, the New York State DREAM Act will open access to the Tuition Assistance Program to undocumented youth |
Category: Alum Blog, DREAMers, Hispanic Federation, Hispanic New York, Jessica Orozco, NY Dream Act, NY Dream Coalition
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• Monday, May 06th, 2013
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Category: Alum Blog, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, deportation, DREAM Act, DREAMers, Hispanic New York, Oxnard College Dreamers, Undocumented Immigrants
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• Sunday, May 05th, 2013
I’ve been researching and talking a lot lately about Digital Civil Society. These are the elements of our society where we use our private resources for public good in and on digital platforms.
It includes “digital activism,” civic technology, …
Category: #digitalcivilsociety, #PLoS, Alum Blog, creativecommons, libraries, Mozilla, philanthropy
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• Sunday, May 05th, 2013
The sad state of Spanish literature, the looming shadow of Roberto Bolaño, and whether Latin American writers can be lumped together under one label are some of the issues discussed by Chilean Rafael Gumucio and Argentine Patricio Pron, …
Category: Alum Blog, Hispanic New York, Latin American literature, Patricio Pron, Rafael Gumucio, revista Traviesa, Roberto Bolaño, Spanish literature
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• Sunday, May 05th, 2013
She’d been fidgeting for some while. Suddenly, she turned and started talking to me. For two hours we’d sat silently, 
side-by-side at the airport gate, waiting for our small commuter airplane. Leaning on the narrow metal armrest that divided our …
Category: Alum Blog, Andrew Stanton, behavior, Book, Caring, Connecting, Drew Carey, fear of flying, improv, Mario Cuomo, Melinda Blau, Night Circus, Peter Guber, self-understanding, storytelling, TheatreSports
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